En / Vienna is building a new central station: Europamitte. That will release large amounts of old rail terrain. A part of the area will be developed as a new neighbourhood, which programmaticly mixes commercial, residential, service functions and leisure.

Our proposal was to organize the large commercial buildings and parking structures along the rails as a noise barrier. As a contrast smaller housing and commercial buildings are grouped in porous city blocks with a sharp edge towards a new public green. A single old garagebuilding is modernized to hold culture and sports facilities.